Utah's Candy Bomber, 100, takes to skies 'once more' at Fourth of July celebration

ST. GEORGE — At nearly 101 years old, Gail Halvorsen made yet another flight to spread candy and smiles, this time to St. George residents during the city's annual Fourth of July celebration.
Marilyn Halvorsen Sorensen, Gail Halvorsen's daughter, noted that the beloved Candy Bomber will turn 101 in October.
"I said, 'Are you up for one more?' And he said: 'Only one more?'" Sorensen told KSL.com. "He loves his country, and we're just glad that we can be here."
Halvorsen served as one of the pilots in a huge U.S. airlift that saved two million Germans from starvation. The Soviet Union had blockaded West Berlin in an attempt to take it away from the western Allies. The Utah native flew planeload after planeload of flour and coal that German volunteers eagerly unloaded.

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